cyclemad wrote:but isn't it better/safer to wear a correctly fitted cycle helmet rather than nothing at all?
It's much better people keep their unwelcomed opinions to themselves,and not shout them to all and sundry
cyclemad wrote:but isn't it better/safer to wear a correctly fitted cycle helmet rather than nothing at all?
Under my breath I do!Mike Sales wrote:I wonder if helmet wearers ever get shouted at by non-believers?
Mick F wrote:Under my breath I do!Mike Sales wrote:I wonder if helmet wearers ever get shouted at by non-believers?
Saw a couple of riders the other day, riding on the footway/pavement.
I wanted to stop and tell them to ..........
A. Get off the footpath onto the road.
B. Stop wearing a silly helmet because you're riding a bike on a footpath! What are you going to do? Fall off it?
C. Why aren't all the pedestrians wearing a helmet who you are having to navigate past?
Mike Sales wrote:I wonder if helmet wearers ever get shouted at by non-believers?
rmurphy195 wrote:Mike Sales wrote:I wonder if helmet wearers ever get shouted at by non-believers?
Yup, I have - one damn fool tried to tell me they don't work, a few weeks after mine did work, in an accident
rmurphy195 wrote:Mike Sales wrote:I wonder if helmet wearers ever get shouted at by non-believers?
Yup, I have - one damn fool tried to tell me they don't work, a few weeks after mine did work, in an accident
reohn2 wrote:cyclemad wrote:but isn't it better/safer to wear a correctly fitted cycle helmet rather than nothing at all?
It's much better people keep their unwelcomed opinions to themselves,and not shout them to all and sundry
mjr wrote:....Abroad, I've been part of a touring group which had a Dutch woman shout at us that "the Tour de France is that way" which I suspect was aimed at the 80%ish helmet users among us but that's about the only time I've ever been in earshot of anything like that!
It's far less common than motorists shouting at cyclists, though.
cyclemad wrote:but isn't it better/safer to wear a correctly fitted cycle helmet rather than nothing at all?
mmcnay wrote:Yesterday afternoon, I was cycling with my son, on a cycle path next to a busy road. A young man on a passing road bike, wearing team colours and a streamlined helmet, shouted that I should be wearing a helmet like my son was. He was loud, his face creased in self-righteousness. I told him to mind his own business. He sped off, the coward, giving me the finger.
Mike Sales wrote:When a club mate told me I looked good but would look better with a helmet, I told him no, I'd look an idiot, like you.
pjclinch wrote:Mike Sales wrote:When a club mate told me I looked good but would look better with a helmet, I told him no, I'd look an idiot, like you.
It is a bizarre claim I sometimes come across to the effect that modern helmets are "stylish".
I don't pretend to understand style and fashion etc., but if this is really so it does seem odd that if I'm in town late on a Friday or Saturday then the folk queuing up at the trendy pubs & clubs aren't all sporting them...
Pete.
Mike Sales wrote:The one time I banged my head on the tarmac I was unhurt, presumably due to my cotton Festina casquette.
drossall wrote:... This is an example of the kind of accident in which a helmet could be damaged quite significantly (should be; that's what's supposed to happen), without necessarily achieving any protection. It's also an anecdote, and it's very hard to be sure what would have happened with a helmet. ...